There's a short piece in this morning's Los Angeles Times about the general neglect of Jack Kirby, in both a credit and financial sense, in the current spate of Marvel Comics movies. I was interviewed for the article but do not endorse its view of Kirby's legal status, nor do I think its estimate of […]
For no visible reason, at least around here, my high-speed Internet connection just began working again. This is the way it always is with Comcast, at least in my experience. They say, "The problem's on your end, we'll have to send a man out," and they schedule one for a few days in the future. […]
The complete programming guide for the Comic-Con International is up on their website… Thursday Programming Friday Programming Saturday Programming Sunday Programming Of course, you can save time by just going to all the panels I'm hosting. […]
Michael Scott, a reader of this site, recolored the George Reeves pic to put Superman in his traditional tones. Several of you have written to me to say that the costume Mr. Reeves wore in the black-and-white episodes was grey and brown, and I think I've seen that costume. There seems to be some disagreement […]
My cable modem has picked a splendid time — the July Fourth weekend — to malfunction so I'm in on a dial-up connection. This will limit posting here a bit until Tuesday afternoon when a technician is supposed to come make it well again…although the last few times the cable went out, I made an […]
These are all over in The New York Times but these links should not require registration. (If they do, don't complain to me. Just register. It's free, it takes about thirty seconds and it doesn't do a bit of harm.) Frank Rich compares the new War of the Worlds movie to Bush's recent prime-time speech. […]
You can't get it until the middle of October but Warner Home Video will soon be bringing out the first season of The Adventures of Superman on DVD — 26 episodes plus special features. There were 104 in all, so assuming this one sells, we'll probably see three more volumes spaced out over the next […]
Here's an article about Paul Winchell's life. And here's another and here's another and here's another. And while we're at it, here's one more. […]
We are edging towards the day when many of us will be wishing aloud that the Comic-Con International in San Diego could be postponed a week or two. But it's coming, it's coming. The Thursday Programming Schedule is now posted but you don't need to read it since you'll only be going to my panels. […]
They had a problem at DC Comics in the mid-sixties: Sales on everything except the Batman books were inching downwards…and Batman was only doing well because of the TV show. At the same time, sales on the new Marvel line were going up. In fact, the Marvel books were gaining at almost the exact same […]
Wouldn't it be wonderful if George W. Bush could and would nominate a Supreme Court Justice who'd win confirmation 100-0? It's been done many times before. But Bush and his more rabid supporters aren't interested in that person. They want the justice who'd be confirmed 51 to 49 or 55 to 45. […]
A short preview of Bob Woodward's new book on his relationship with Mark "Deep Throat" Felt. […]
Back in the sixties in the pages of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee would occasionally award some lucky (?) reader what he called a "no prize." It might be in a letter column or it might be in the house ad section called the Bullpen Bulletins. The reader might have made some extraordinary contribution to the […]
We've made a few time changes in the schedule, mostly a matter of shifting a couple things up a half-hour… […]
GSN, the former Game Show Network, is airing a tribute to Paul Winchell tomorrow and Friday morn — four episodes, two each morning, of What's My Line? in which Paul was on the panel. The most interesting is probably the first, in which the Mystery Guest was Mortimer Snerd…or more correctly, Edgar Bergen working Mortimer […]